7DIAGRAMS AND ANIMATIONS
Tell me, Steed. Is everything to scale?
—Mrs. Peel
Diagrams are an essential form of scientific communication and education. The type of diagram treated in this chapter is distinct from the plots of data or mathematical functions we worked with in Chapter 4. Diagrams in this context refers to illustrations of mathematical structures, drawings of experimental setups, flowcharts describing algorithms or processing pipelines, and similar graphical descriptions.
Animations now frequently accompany scientific papers reporting on simulations, as supplementary material offered online. They’re also a valuable tool in education ...
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